Los Angeles history

Random Shot – Amelia Earhart, 1936

December 24, 2009 | 8:00
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Los Angeles Times file photo

I recently went through The Times’ photographs from Amelia Earhart’s 1937 flight; the one on which she disappeared. I think this is one of my favorites. She’s posing with the airplane as it’s being built in Burbank in a photo dated May 27, 1936.